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Fox News anchor taken off air after Obama 'terrorist fist jab' gaffe
Guardian ^ | 6/13/08 | staff

Posted on 06/13/2008 6:51:37 AM PDT by pissant

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Poor ED, even an apology did not save her...
1 posted on 06/13/2008 6:51:37 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Had she said it about a republican, there’s be no issue.


2 posted on 06/13/2008 6:54:13 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: pissant

But Keith Overbite remains. What’s wrong with this picture?


3 posted on 06/13/2008 6:54:21 AM PDT by Eurale
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Meanwhile, CNN and MSNBC “journalists” can spew all kinds of nastiness about President Bush and they get promoted for it.


4 posted on 06/13/2008 6:54:30 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Rush on McCain: "We're so screwed.")
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To: pissant

Of course not. Even FAX news is going totally liberal. I never watch them anymore. I got tired of the liberal crap there long ago.


5 posted on 06/13/2008 6:54:48 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Even if he wins, obama WILL NEVER BE MY PRESIDENT OF MY COUNTRY!!!)
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To: pissant

She should have stayed with Fox & Friends. I’ve watched less than an hour total since they broke up the morning team.


6 posted on 06/13/2008 6:55:15 AM PDT by bcsco (To heck with a third party. We need a second one....)
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To: pissant

I don’t care if it was a “terrorist fist jab”, a “fist bump” or whatever you call it.

It is behavior unbecoming of a couple who wishes to occupy the White House. He’s running for President of the United States, not high school class president.


7 posted on 06/13/2008 6:55:48 AM PDT by captjanaway
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To: RetiredArmy

Fox needed her more than she needs Fox. Syndicate her as a talk-show host, and she’ll be one of the top 10.


8 posted on 06/13/2008 6:56:11 AM PDT by rstrahan
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To: Puppage
Had she said it about a republican, there’s be no issue.

This is Fox News. She wouldn't have said it about a Republican.

9 posted on 06/13/2008 6:56:49 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: pissant

Yep, ED should never have crossed the Obamamessiah and his wife.


10 posted on 06/13/2008 6:56:57 AM PDT by dforest (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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To: bcsco

Bonehead move, totally.


11 posted on 06/13/2008 6:57:49 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: captjanaway
It is behavior unbecoming of a couple who wishes to occupy the White House.

Why?

12 posted on 06/13/2008 6:57:58 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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Geez, it’s even worse than I thought-—the first I heard of this was as a single standalone statement from her—now I read the actual statement as see she’s listing just one interpretation of this gesture BY OTHERS, but she still had to apologize FOR THEM. This is done ALL the time , by the most scurrilous surrogates on the Left, and they don’t lose a show over it.


13 posted on 06/13/2008 6:58:13 AM PDT by supremedoctrine (Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn.--D.Schwartz)
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Rule #1 these days is NEVER apologize. Even if you want to, you only whet the appetite of those determined to nail you.

Groveling only gives the enemy a good shot at your tuckus.


14 posted on 06/13/2008 6:58:30 AM PDT by sinanju
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To: pissant

This is ridiculous. I’m sorry Fox caved.

That stupid bump gesture was inappropriate, and, yes, it is something that one has occasionally had ugly pictures of Palestinians and other terrorists doing after a particularly successful kill. Of course, it’s taken from sports and Obama and his nasty spouse were just doing it to increase what he seems to believe are his black street creds, but if the gesture caused comment, then certainly all images it might bring to one’s mind are legit.

By the time the campaign really gets into full swing, we’re not going to be able to say a single thing about BO, unless, of course, we say he’s the messiah.


15 posted on 06/13/2008 6:59:09 AM PDT by livius
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I thought it was a gang-related sign, not a terrorist-related sign.

Since when do terrorists do a fist-bang?

It is pretty sad it led to dismissal, because it wasn’t even a declaration against them, just one in a list of possibilities, and I presume the story then debunked the notion.

Meanwhile, on other stations they call Bush a terrorist, call Bush and Cheney criminals, and they don’t get any action taken against them.

On the other hand, we need to play up all the hundreds of cases where anybody saying anything remotely harmful about Obama gets attacked.

We need to point out that Obama can’t take it, that Obama is seen as a weak person who needs to be defended from all these attacks.

In that sense, if McCain would keep getting air time decrying the unfortunate attacks made on his fellow senator, he could make it look like Obama is some nobody who needs a real statesman and leader to protect him.


16 posted on 06/13/2008 6:59:16 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Non-Sequitur
interesting comment by a supposed conservative ? Fox is a repub network , the same station that left Shep Smith rant a pack of lies about Katrna for a week ?
17 posted on 06/13/2008 6:59:45 AM PDT by ncalburt
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But Keith Overbite remains. What’s wrong with this picture?

Fair and Balanced??

18 posted on 06/13/2008 7:00:33 AM PDT by Ron H. (A lesser evil candidate is still an evil candidate even if it's a Republicrat!)
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To: Eurale

Boycott NBC Sunday Night Football....


19 posted on 06/13/2008 7:02:20 AM PDT by RadioCirca1970 (Banner 17!)
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"A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently," said Hill in her show

Sad. There is absolutely nothing wrong with her statement. If she were to point out that some people look at our President as a murderer, would that mean SHE looks at him that way?
20 posted on 06/13/2008 7:02:58 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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